OK guys. I'm not arguing this all week, but some response cant hurt. First off, in the original post, I stated very clearly that not all items are covered by values, therefore we wont be giving out anything to anyone over their decisions regarding what to put in the barrels.. I gave you guys a list of the things that DO have a special value, and kind of advised against turning in things of value that were not in that list.
This system in its original form would have just eaten a lot of those things and give you nothing - absolutely nothing. Its very old code, from Hybrid, and wasn't designed around an AOS+ world. Ive edited a lot of the "gochyas" in the code, but really, it is what it is. Mind you, this is the first time this system was ever run on Demise. There are a lot of unforeseen and unpredictable effects when you are addressing nearly every player-obtainable item in game and sometimes things need to be tweaked.
If I could have updated the shard the first day someone said they wished the PSs were covered, we could have changed it then. But, as a result of various levels of behind the scenes non-sense, the shard can usually only be updated once a week.
There will be more changes to it, and NO ONE is getting any information about planned changes to values. Why? Simple: We don't want to rehash the rubbish about some people get told stuff and some don't. I mean, seriously... the OP in this very thread has the warning about turning in unlisted items, and I'm getting the impression some of you didn't even read it anyway. What would have happened if some read an early warning about changing the PS, and others didn't see it? We've been down that road before.
The solution is just to tell no one, and everyone is in the same boat.
As for BODs from books: impossible as things work in RunUO right now. When you drop a BOD into a book, it doesn't store the BOD away somewhere. Rather, it deletes the BOD, and saves the values about quality, count and material. When you drop a BOD from the book, a new BOD is created and placed in your pack.
Anyway, I will not be addressing this issue further. I have a lot of work to get done for the next event, Christmas.